Local Business SEO tips/tricks

benjee68

hey for those who are local seo'ers...here's a couple of tips that'll help you out that's helped us.

* a domain with the main kw in it or chose a local domain name
* city name and surrounding cities in the metas, content and inner linking with your city location and surrounding cities
* subpage content with zip codes
* drip links
* google & yahoo maplinks and link your keyword along with your physical address
* get the site on a good handful of review sites...yelp, citysearch, google local etc...for BLs. don't bs and leave rave reviews...leave it be

We've helped out a handful of our local businesses and were able to get them on the first page. nothing shockingly new here but just sayin...it's helped us, so hope these help some of you...

benjee68

not 1 local seo'er?

awebd

This is very helpful for me, thanks!!

Seoiht

The best way that I do, local ppc advertising, and reviews on local blogs qualified. The domain name that contains keywords I think is less important, I have a domain name company name

syrena143

For local Business you should concentrate on long tail keywords which will rank faster then short tail keywords.

marrick

Well, that's not new in terms of local SEOs. If you want to have a good local internet exposure, you just have to get all possible resources in your target area.